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Witness History: Bay of Pigs Invasion

Bay of Pigs Invasion

BBC World Service - Witness History, Bay of Pigs Invasion

A Cuban exile tells how he and several hundred others tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.

In 1961 Alfredo Duran was one of several hundred Cuban exiles who invaded their homeland in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro.

In 1961 Alfredo Duran was part of a group of CIA-trained Cuban exiles who invaded the island to try to overthrow Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.

He tells Witness how the scheme went badly wrong, and how the promise of help from the Americans never came. 

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